Perseid meteor shower

astronomy

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Intense meteor outburst (yellow streaks) during the Perseid meteor shower of August 1995. All of the meteors appear to be emerging from a single point in the sky (to the left and outside the image), called the radiant of the shower.S. Molau and P. Jenniskens—NASA Ames Research Center

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…particular, he calculated that the Perseid meteors are remnants of Comet 1862 III and the Leonids of Comet 1866 I. He also observed double stars and made extensive studies of Mercury, Venus, and Mars.